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The Image

Chorus

It’s the image
Can’t seem to get it out of my head
It started in slavery
It’s the image
Can’t seem to get it out of my head
We on CP time, ya’ll

Verse One
I’m in love with a symbol, how my life should go
But before me be the real truth that we all know
I be keeping making plans I got no plan to fulfill
I be saying I’m in motion, but I’m standing here still
Like I’m set for the pick, I’m transfixed in tar pits
Stealth on my mental health, the wine is a quick fix
Yesterday, tomorrow, and it’s on next week
Yo month to a year, now it’s a memory leak
I got to do, the honey-do, the personal planner too
All of this time be like the sand slipping th’ough
The hourglass, feeling like an outcast
Might just blast, sitting here, a contemplating the past
Coulda, woulda, shoulda but I didn’t and don’t
But then I probably will, but then I probably won’t
Got to roll up, seems I got to take what you got
‘Cause I am that I am and you be all that I’m not

Verse Two
I’m like Rip Van and I’m coming to understand
That you can’t get nowhere if you don’t be work a plan
The future belongs to those who envision it
But most be on the sideline, spectating, missing it
Fake it to ya make it, that’s some serious bull
‘Cause if you keep on faking it, then you never have the pull
U got to make a schema, find yo center
You just a pretender, without that agenda
Ain’t no mistake never getting where yo heart is
The only mistake is to never get started
Or to hang out with those that’ll mentally lynch ya
Break down yo dreams and destroy yo potential
Sorta like me, you’ll be asking the question
What make me qualified to teach the lesson
I’m sitting in a cell, got time to create
‘Cause when they passed out the knowledge, I was once again late

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from Herein Lies The Problem, released July 29, 2013

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DP Da Reapa Council Bluffs, Iowa

DP Da Reapa (Dr. Nikitah Imani) is Pres. and CEO of Faith4Word a company in Council Bluffs, Iowa of which ReapALife Records is a vital part. He is from the ATL and holds a BSFS, 2 master's degrees, and a Ph.D. He is Professor of Black Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He represents his hometown ATL doing the old school hip hop. ... more

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